Word: pago
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Imagine the natives' surprise in 1954 when a grizzled old American William Willis, then 61, hit the beach on Pago Pago, Eastern Samoa, after floating 6,400 miles across the Pacific-on a raft, no less. That was even better than the Kon-Tiki expedition. "It was a nightmare, and a beautiful dream," said Willis, and decided to do it again some time. Last week it was the natives of Apia, Western Samoa, who were star tled, as in over the reef came Willis, two cats and raft, four months and 6,500 miles out of Callao, Peru...
...Alaska, Fiji and Tahiti, the waves became nothing more than wildly fluctuating tides. At Pago Pago they carried three houses into the bay; in New Zealand, sheep dogs chained to kennels were swept out to sea and drowned, while the waves' great ebb eerily exposed the wreck of a British frigate sunk in 1840 off Auckland...
...Pago Pago, storied capital of the paradise islands of American Samoa, there was pandemonium last week over allegations that leprosy was spreading alarmingly among the territory's 20,000 people and was being shamefully neglected...
...Donohugh served six years (through the Korean war) before he could get to medical school (California, '56). After interning in San Diego and a residency in Monterey, he signed up for a two-year stint as a civilian medical officer in Samoa, took his wife and children to Pago Pago. There, last month, convinced that his alarm signals about leprosy were getting no results. Dr. Donohugh decided to throw his Navy training to the winds. Instead of proceeding only through channels, he labeled his charges "for wider dissemination" and slipped a copy to a newsman. What happened after that...